Stuff I can help with

[nlongo33]

It was suggested I start a thread here:   As you guys might or might not know I’m a technology/engineering teacher at a middle school and high school.  I have the following equipment we can use to help create things all in the name of education 🤘

2 ultimaker s5 3D printers
Form labs sla printer
Maker bot z18
Laguna cnc machine 4axis
Trotec laser 4axis
24” vinyl cutter
24” wide format printer
Plasma table
Full wood shop
Also have access to water jet not mine. But former student runs eos outfitters. They make high end knives and Johnny will help whenever there’s free machine time

Cost to get stuff done all depends on what you want.  Essentially you pay for materials and shipping and we provide the free labor, errrr I mean learning 😂

I’m sure I’m forgetting other stuff, like we have welders and sheet metal equipment too.  

Like I said here to help.  

Have a great week

[Gary Lewis]

Wow, that's quite a shop!  And, quite an offer!  I wish I knew something to take you up on at the moment, but I don't.

Having said that, I have a feeling that I might in the future.  The thing I have in my mind is a box of some kind to enclose my Cole Hersee Smart Switch, shown below.  It is currently VERY exposed and since it has #2 wires to both batteries on each side, there's lots of juice.  So a wrench dropped on it could be a bit of a problem.

I'm sure to have to move it as I rearrange for EFI, but when I figure out where it is going to go then I might draw something up that I'd like to have printed.  What kinds of formats do you use?

[nlongo33]

stl for three 3d printing and dxf or dwg for cnc and plasma...but we can usually get files to do what we need

[nlongo33]

oh ya forgot i do hydro dipping as well

[Gary Lewis]

Got it on the files.  

On the hydrodipping, since I've never been around it but have read some about it, can it be done on surfaces with compound curves?  Or just simple curves?

I was thinking about the instrument and radio bezels on these trucks.  The Rosewood that was used from 80 - 84 is hard to come by in good shape, and the burled wood used in '85 and '6 is usually purple by now due to UV fading.  But underneath those decals the bezels are smooth.  So if we found good Rosewood or burled wood material, or maybe even carbon fiber looking stuff, could they be refinished via hydrodipping?

[nlongo33]

i have carbon hydro dip, ya it wraps around complex curves,,,,,i have a "scrap" bezel when i get a chance i will dip it and show you how it comes out

[Gary Lewis]

That would be great!  Thanks!